This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This challenge is for the uninitiated Librarian-cum-Wikipedian.
You'll learn how to edit and then take the challenge of improving one article from our trove of Open Access Content.
You'll do this by taking following some interactive videos, and then editing Wikipedia.
The easiest way to tangibly contribute to Open Access Week.
Using version history, find on which day the Page for Gangnam Style was created, and how many days was it after the video launched? Does this length of time surprise you?
Find out what links to Gangnam Style. Which article is most surprisingly linked to Gangnam Style?
The Gangname Style page was created on 30 July 2012.
The Wikepedia page was created 15 days later, way longer than I would have guessed.
The most surprising article to me that links to Gangnam Style is PostgreSQL.
Fifteen days, omg
And it is odd to see Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class, Australian Recording Industry Association, Afrojack and Aircraft carrier style linking to Gagnam Style
The Berklee College of Music link surprsed me, PSY is an alum apparently.
2 weeks doesnt suprised me at all, robot users might (User talk:Angelo.romano).
I think the most interesting pages it links from is the Boston University and Berklee College of Music...I didn't know he was educated in the U.S.
Using version history, find on which day the Page for Gagnam Style was created,
and how many days was it after the video launched?
The song was released on July 15, 2012, as the lead single of his sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1. On July 15, 2012, the music video for "Gangnam Style" was uploaded onto YouTube and received about 500,000 views on its first day.[46]
Does this length of time surprise you?
Yes, a bit. The initial poster clearly knows how to get around in Wikipedia OR Wikipedia is so intuitive that the searcher, not having found it, created it.
Find out what links to Gangnam Style. Which article is most surprisingly links to Gagngam Style?
“Social Impact of YouTube” under the “Controversies over video rankings”
"Gangnam Style" by Psy, which has over 530 million views
This is all very useful info to know.
PS: As a librarian I do love this Gangnam Remix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F11i1PRUXw0
We always knew that one of the features of libraries was that it'd make a good location for filming parodies. Right?
So http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Chmerkovskiy links to Gangnam style. Apparently this is a celebrity dancer on Dancing with the Stars, who once danced with the stars to Gangnam Style. That seems particularly unencyclopedic to me. But perhaps that's not surprising.
